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As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwins, Marconis, men with faith which they confirmed by experiment. Luther and Garibaldi, Washington and Lincoln, men of action as well as thought, were primarily men of faith. But infinitely above all, Jesus himself is the supreme example of a man of faith. Even on his cross he was absolutely confident, though as far as any human eye could see then, his faith, judged by results, was
-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
-George Gurdjieff
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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
-John Haggai
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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
-Bob Harrington
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-William Hazlitt
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I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land
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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
-Cullen Hightower
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
-Vaclav Hlavaty
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-Ralph Hodgson
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
-Eric Hoffer
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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
-Raymond Holliwell
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
-Elbert Hubbard
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-Victor Hugo
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It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this world. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom and trust to act in one's own life.
-John Indermark
Setting the Christmas Stage, p. 81
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Essay: Individuality
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
-William James
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
-William James
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
-William James
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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
-Rufus M. Jones
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Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion and he will be frenzied.
-Kedar Joshi
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
-James Joyce
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If I accept the fact that a god is absolute and beyond all human experiences, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that a god is a powerful impulse in my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important
-Carl Gustav Jung
Psyche and Symbol, 1958
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I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted Anne Sullivan's attempt to transform a little half-human, half-animal, deaf-blind child into a complete human being. Neither science nor philosophy had set such a goal, but faith, the eye of love did. I did not know I had a soul. Then the God in a wise heart drew me out of nothingness with cords of human love and the life belt of language, and lo, I found myself. In my doubly shadowed world faith gives me a reason for trying to draw harmony out of a marred instrument. Faith is not a cushion for me to fall back upon; it is my working energy.
-Helen Keller
Let Us Have Faith, 1940
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Books about Faith
